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Singaporean artist Sim Chi Yin has brought her exhibition about Chinese communists to Hong Kong just when anti-Chinese Communist sentiment is running high in the semi-autonomous city. One Day We'll Understand is about the Malayan Emergency, the 1948-60 communist guerilla war fought in the Federation of Malaya before and after independence from...

I feel quieted in Emily Cheng's studio — to the point where I wondered, afterwards, if I'd even posed questions. A fountain is gurgling, and she has set out beer and snacks. The paintings invite reflection more than commentary. I had visited her studio more than 10 years ago, and at the time felt that she was a painter whose work fell...

With his thick-rimmed glasses, Mandarin-collar jacket and broad smile, Johnson Chang is an instantly recognisable figure at many of Hong Kong's art events—but he's famous for far more than his fashion sense.

Luo Ying is a purist. The professor of traditional Chinese painting practises what she teaches: her classical ink landscape paintings borrow techniques and styles of brushwork used as far back as the Song dynasty (960 – 1279AD).

Art Basel Switzerland which is always an important barometer in the art market has reported that some of the world's premier galleries experienced remarkable sales across all levels of the market. The fair in Basel closed on Sunday, June 17 2018, amid reports of significant sales to private collections and institutions by galleries across all...

On May 21, Taiwanese artist and filmmaker Chen Chieh-jen received the prestigious Artist of the Year honor at the Award of Art China (AAC) ceremony in Beijing. In its 12th year, AAC is an annual award founded by Chinese art media group Artron, recognizing the best of contemporary art within Greater China. Chen was presented with a trophy for his...

With art week coming up, it's time to celebrate the people working in the art industry in Hong Kong. As well as bringing art from around the world to the city, these gallerists often promote Hong Kong artists on the international stage. Here's a list of Hong Kong-based gallerists who have helped put the city on the art world's radar.

Running until 18 January 2018, Qiu Zhijie: Journeys Without Arrivals focuses on the work of the artist Qiu Zhijie, who made waves for his satirical, often tongue-in-cheek calligraphic maps of the world. The Beijing-based artist is known for producing enormous, overwhelming ink maps, which often provide an underlying commentary that weave...

Fang Lijun's oeuvre has long been intertwined with the narrative of Cynical Realism—a movement fostered by Chinese artists following the Tiananmen Square crackdown, signifying a generation of artists' conflicted responses to the government's stifling of open political and creative expression.

Few within Hong Kong's art circles are unfamiliar with the name Gaylord Chan. Despite having never properly picked up a paintbrush until the age of 42, Chan has gone on to become one of the most prominent artists in the city, producing works with his signatures bold colors and abstract shapes that come to life on his canvases. Now, at the age of...

I feel quieted in Emily Cheng's studio—to the point where I wondered, afterwards, if I'd even posed questions. A fountain is gurgling, and she has set out beer and snacks. The paintings invite reflection more than commentary. I had visited her studio more than 10 years ago, and at the time felt that she was a painter whose work fell outside...

Hong Kong artist Fung Ming Chip's research into the history of ideograms and pictographs, especially in relation to Chinese calligraphy, seems increasingly relevant in a media saturated world in which the image is most definitely the message. The title of Fung Ming Chip's current solo exhibition Meme at Hong Kong-based Galerie du Monde seeks to...

Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play — United Arab Emirates Curated by Hammad Nasar, commissioned by the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and supported by the UAE Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development, the exhibition features existing, new commissions and re-fabrications of 'lost' works by five UAE-based artists. The...

Fang Lijun (China, 1963) belongs to the first generation of independent Chinese artists who formed a community in the Old Summer Palace (Yuanming Yuan) in the suburbs of Beijing. Fang Lijun shot to fame in the early 1990s as a pioneer of the movement known as Cynical Realism.

The China Pavilion at this year's edition of the Venice Biennale, running from 13 May to 26 November 2017, will be curated by artist and curator Qiu Zhijie (b.1969), Dean of the School of Experimental Art at China's Central Academy of Fine Arts. The theme of this year's exhibition will be Continuum - Generation by Generation and will include the...

In 2016 INK ASIA has attracted 50 art galleries and organisations from ten countries and cities. New section HIGHLIGHT will feature 12 leading art galleries, which are proactively promoting ink art, six of which are making their debut at INK Asia in 2016: Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore), My Humble House (Taipei), Xi...

The title of the tenth Taipei Biennial, Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future, includes everything but the term hammered throughout the exhibition: history. Curated by Corinne Diserens, this biennial departs from the 2014 edition helmed by Nicolas Bourriaud on the theme of accelerationism. Where Bourriaud’s...

Annals of Floating Island, a group exhibition featuring eight emerging Chinese artists and co-curated by Song Zhenxi and Zhang Cheng, showcases over twenty works involving a wide variety of media, including installation, mixed media, video, photography, ink on paper, painting and books. All participating artists and curators, save for Tong...

Opened alongside Para Site’s 4th annual International Conference (6/21–23), That Has Been, and May Be Again is an exhibition honoring the multitude of voices that have arisen throughout 1980s and ’90s China, that speak to the search for a cultural and political identity during the country’s modernization. The diverse...

At 2:30 pm on July 2, 2016, Time Test – International Video Art Research Exhibition was unveiled at CAFA Art Museum. The exhibition is jointly hosted by Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. and CAFA Art Museum. In the axis of the development course of the video art, the project presents...

Hawaii has a population of more than 1.4 million people but not a single museum is dedicated to contemporary art, said Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, a co-founder of the first Honolulu Biennial, which will open in spring 2017. “We can both highlight our tremendous local talent as well as bring in national and international contemporary artists...

France has always been a country of asylum for Chinese artists. After the First World War, it was where painters such as Zao Wou-ki and Chu Teh-Chun developed their careers. In the 1990s, Paris became a vanguard destination for contemporary Chinese artists fleeing the Tiananmen revolution, like Yan Pei Ming and Huang Yong Ping. At that time former...

Antiquity-Like Rubbish Research and Development Syndicate is a multi-artist, process-oriented project begun in 2010 by Taiwanese-born, American-educated artist Yeh Wei-Li. The primary process of the ongoing project is collecting trash as materials from all sorts of spaces – construction sites as well as riverbeds – and reassembling...

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